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Solid Wood floor - creaking and springy

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  • 17-07-2006 10:18am
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    sapper
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭


    Hi - I'm looking at buying a newly-built house which has solid wood, juncker-style flooring. In spots around the house, the flooring is pretty creaky and in someplaces it's a bit springy (you can press up and down on the floor to get the creaking going).

    The house is, I'm told, 1 year old with a concrete sub-floor.

    I'm thinking that perhaps the problem is that the floor has not been given enough room to expand. Is this a factor for solid wood flooring just like it is for floorboards?

    I was thinking perhaps the remedy would be to remove the skirtings and cut back the wood by an inch or so for an expansion gap.

    Or will I just ruin a perfectly good floor?


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    cltt97
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    Sounds like the concrete underneath is uneven, or it was possibly to moist still when the floor was being laid. Don't think cutting back the wood ad the sides would help, but I'm no carpenter...


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    kadman
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators Posts: 5,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭kadman


    sapper wrote:
    Hi - I'm looking at buying a newly-built house which has solid wood, juncker-style flooring. In spots around the house, the flooring is pretty creaky and in someplaces it's a bit springy (you can press up and down on the floor to get the creaking going).

    The house is, I'm told, 1 year old with a concrete sub-floor.

    I'm thinking that perhaps the problem is that the floor has not been given enough room to expand. Is this a factor for solid wood flooring just like it is for floorboards?

    I was thinking perhaps the remedy would be to remove the skirtings and cut back the wood by an inch or so for an expansion gap.

    Or will I just ruin a perfectly good floor?

    The initial impressions of the floor, is that either the floor was laid without provision for movement. Or the subfloor was poorly levelled.

    Either way alarm bells should be sounding. This is a new house, and should not have these sort of problems, if the workman ship was up to standard.
    No decent tradesman would lay wooden flooring incorrectly , on a poorly levelled sub floor.

    What about the hidden areas you cant see. Get a professional survey done, by some one competent,

    kadman


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